Ch. 500 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 500
(Senate Bill 736)

AN ACT concerning

Health Care Facilities - Mental Hygiene Administration - Transfer of Records and

Patients

FOR the purpose of requiring certain public health care facilities to transfer certain
records of an individual by a certain date if the individual is transferred from a
unit in a health care facility to another unit in the facility or to another public
health care facility; providing that certain provisions are not intended to preempt
certain requirements; specifying that certain persons may transport certain
individuals to or from certain facilities; and generally relating to the transfer of
records and patients to certain public health care facilities.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 10-625
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1990 Replacement Volume)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 10-807
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1990 Replacement Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Health - General

10-625.

(a) If an emergency evaluee meets the requirements for an involuntary
admission and is unable or unwilling to agree to a voluntary admission under this
subtitle, the examining physician shall take the steps needed for involuntary admission
of the emergency evaluee to an appropriate facility, which may be a general hospital
with a licensed inpatient psychiatric unit.

(b) (1) If the examining physician is unable to have the emergency evaluee
admitted to a facility, the physician shall notify the Department.

(2) Within 6 hours after notification, the Department shall provide for
admission of the emergency evaluee to an appropriate facility.

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